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So this seems insane? Is it really that big or more of a problem demo with lots of drawbacks?

lmstudio is very easy if you are running on local desktop.

What are your thoughts on dspy?

I know the last company I worked for had each interviewer interview separately, then had each person write up a few paragraphs of thoughts. Then they were allowed to discuss with each other.

Young people spend alot of time on tick tock. At the level of detail that social media companies can get, they can estimate fairly accurately what issues that people get concerned by, and their opinions. Then they can micro target individual subpopulations with messaging that particularly works at influencing them.

This is very different than historical propaganda efforts, were one had to target the largest common denominator.

Now you can send individualized messaging towards individual subgroups. You see some of this with politicians in the US saying one thing in a set of Facebook adds, while saying the opposite in another set. Because the ads are targeted, neither group sees the ads meant for the other group, Which allows for better tailoring of message.

On top of this the goal of a theoretical Chinese propaganda campaign is not necessarily to send a particular message, but to polarize and divide the country to make it even more disfunctional.

But is this an issue of them only building their own chips?

(Speaking of which, what does Intel do with old fabs for the past 20 years after moving to a new node?)

I always assumed that they were snake oil because the training objective is to get a model that writes like a human. AI detectors by definition are showing what does not sound like a human, so presumably people will train the models against the detectors until they no longer provide any signal.

It varies by state, what you described is California's rules, which are by far the most permissive of moonlighting.

The more I learn about computers/software, the more I think it is a miracle that anything works at all.

I thought it was referring to this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperscale_computing

IE our simd implementation allows you to scale across different architectures/ CPU revisions without having to rewrite assembly for each CPU processor?

Edit: Rereading, that does not make much sense...

I mean even now, there is ITAR, which makes working on unauthorized technologies in foreign countries illegal.

I honestly like the physical switch on the framework, which disconnects the microphone/webcam fully.

My impression is that if you are a contractor type person, daily going to and from a jobsite, your commute is 50 miles, so electricity works well, and is cost effective, just from the business side of things.

Additionally there is the potential to use the f150 as an alternative to small generators, for those places where there is not full power.

Isn't that what they are doing? They subsidize the farmers separately, and charge a carbon tax separately. Even if those are initially the same amount you would think that the incentive structure would encourage farmers to shift to less c02 methods, as that improves profit?

It gets legislation that people in general want (better rivers and streams, healthier sea ecosystem) passed, by subsidizing the changes required for the people those changes negatively affect.

Is it ideal? maybe not, but it is the real world.

I think that the biggest issue is that congress is underfunded and has ceded too much control to the executive.

By that I mean that the modern world is incredibly complex, yet in the house, each house member only gets 1.25 million per year for staff. Yet despite that they are supposed to create and manage the rules and regulations for a 30 trillion dollar economy.

It's impossible, even if you have good faith of all actors. This leads to lobbying groups providing texts for laws, because they have the resources to provide people to write and review them.

It also leads to shifting the bureaucracy of the regulations to the executive branch, because that is where there is the money to hire staff/expertise/ and regulate something as large and complicated.

My pet peeve is that each congressional rep should be receiving ~25 million for staff, then use that to build up in house expertise, vs having everything under the executive.

Congress has ceded too much power.

To disable a satalite would you actually need to hit orbital velocity? Couldn't you just shoot your rocket up to altitude and time it such that the satalite hits it?

Did he use the same signing key? (If we are being generous)

My impression is that the US system does, but the higher accuracy is still reserved for military use?

This has to be some sort of money laundering scheme right?

The local paper/interview quoted in the times piece:

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/once-thought-to...

It takes a special someone to work 40-50 hrs per week, writing hard creative software, then go home and write hard creative software in a different domain, while also balancing family/life.

Also, unless you are in CA many companies have extensive IP assignment clauses, which makes moonlighting on other projects potentially questionable.(especially if they are assholes)

My previous job made it hard to even submit bugs/fixes to open source projects we used internally. Often we just forked b/c bureaucracy (there's a reason it was my previous job)

Not saying your wrong, seeing someone's code is nice. As long as you are aware that you are leaving alot on the table by excluding those that do not have a presence. (Particularly older with kids)

So I don't really know what I'm talking about...

But isn't the EU cyber resiliency act about requiring companies to provide guarantees on their software?

Open source projects alone cannot provide those, but it seems like something a secondary organization could provide ala a 'pay us a fee, and we will provide a legal guarantee' on software quality + liability insurance.

The only way that those liability organizations could provide those type of guarantees is by being associated with the project/updates, and ideally use the money they get from liability fees to cover developer pay?

The past 10 years feels surreal...

My impression was that they were trying to get remote access to ubers US servers/infrastructure/data?

Might be wrong...

maybe if you could reduce/eliminate labor costs. So indoor robotic farm, setup close to consumers (to reduce transport).

No weeds, no pesticides, very efficient yields in terms of fertilizer etc. year round growth.

With the advantage of a indoor environment being easier for robotics.

What I don't get is why we don't have prison time associated with hiring illegal immigrants. Combine that with a ~100k bounty (that anyone can claim, including illegal immigrants themselves).

It makes it much more risky to hire someone who has incentives to tell the government about your illegal hiring of them.

For those who get annoyed being sent to a pdf download: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2410.12043

The us is different between the us and Europe, everytime someone uses a credit card there are fees that go to the bank and the credit card processor.

In Europe these are legally capped, in the us they are not. So the 2% cash back on US cards is the cards and banks competing for market share by providing kickbacks from these fees to customers.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/how-credit-cards-make...

Couple reasons I rarely use debit cards, I use a credit card and pay it off every month:

If it gets stolen/someone else uses it, all I need to do is tell my bank, and since I have not paid the debt, I am not out any money. It is on the bank. If I was using a debit card, it may take a month+ to be investigated/money returned.

Emergencies/availability having available credit is useful, most of my money is in investment accounts, even if only to get higher money market interest rates. I can transfer to my bank account, but that takes time. Having ~10k in credit available for if I need a last minute plane/hotel/hospital is good in an emergency. Once I'm safe I can move the money around as needed.

Cash back, coming from the USA credit cards give me 2-3% cash back. That is significant considering I use them for all purchases.

I do not believe that credit card accounts have a negative affect on mortgages. They are different types, with credit cards being revolving. As long as you are paying it off and not maintaining a valence, then it should only be a net positive (shows credit history of paying debts).